in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, act
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